[New Gacha Policy Discussion]

26 minutes ago, Cinos Field said:

Ah, brilliant. So gachas were banned but actually gachas are allowed if we call them conveyors instead.

What was the point of this whole thing again? A very niche wording of a law somewhere?

Was it the word that got banned, specifically, then? The blog post definitely needs updating on what mechanic exactly is banned, because it clearly wasn't the randomness as a result of payment.

literally does feel like they're just trying to ban gacha-in-name and anything that could be explicitly interpreted as gambling, not actual gambling overall.

[New Gacha Policy Discussion]

The conveyor system sounds actively worse and will turn me off of patronizing creators even harder than gacha does specifically because it's such a non-solution to the problem.  It's still exploitative because you have to buy a bunch of items you don't want to get the one you do.

Feels uncomfortably like laws requiring lootboxes to stick odds on them.  It's not technically gambling now because look, you know what the odds of getting a thing are!  Only here you know for 100% certainty you'll get a single item once.  It's not a fix, it's a workaround.